eInfraCentral portal

The third activity combines the work of the e-infrastructure collaboration and the Service Catalogue Alignment and focuses on the implementation and operation of the eInfraCentral portal, the underlying knowledge base and the corresponding APIs (Application program interfaces) and consists of two parts; 1) the implementation of the service catalogue, and 2) the development of monitoring mechanisms.

The implementation of the service catalogue will feature different views and aspects of the services targeted towards e-infrastructure users (researchers-SMEs-citizens), technology providers and policy makers. This task will be accompanied by the definition and publication of the exchange formats for the automatic population of the service catalogue from the e-infrastructures, and registration/validation tools used by e-infrastructure operators.

The development of monitoring mechanisms. These will effectively provide a European e-infrastructure Observatory created from the service catalogue and their KPIs with aggregated and comparative views. They will monitor different aspects and activities of the entire spectrum of European e-infrastructures, such as their operation and use, resources offered to the research and educational community and other users in Europe, their uptake by the relevant stakeholders. They will effectively be used to support evidence based decision making for European-wide policies.

The development of the portal is divided into two phases:

In the first phase, a Service Catalogue Portal Prototype will be set up with a limited number of common services that can be tested by user groups (second half of 2017).

In the remainder of the project, eInfraCentral will fully deploy the portal to cover a broader range of services, KPIs and monitoring and visualisation tools. The public release of the eInfraCentral Portal is planned for April 2019.

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